Key facts
- Product type
- Cigarette
- Owner
- Japan Tobacco , R. J. Reynolds
- Produced by
- Japan Tobacco International (outside U.S.), R. J. Reynolds (U.S.)
- Country
- United States
- Introduced
- 1913 ; 113 years ago ( 1913 )
- Tagline
- List "The Camels are coming" "I'd walk a mile for a Camel!" "For digestion's sake – smoke Camels" "Hump Day" "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette" "Have a REAL cigarette - Camel"
- Website
- camel .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Camel is an American brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the United States and by Japan Tobacco outside the U.S. Most recently Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the city where R. J. Reynolds was founded, is nicknamed "Camel City" because of the brand's popularity.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.